Welcome to the Monday interview. Today we have Steef-Jan Wiggers, who is a Microsoft Integration MVP and one of the Guardians for the BizTalk TechNet Wiki Articles. He has been helping lot of people personally by sharing his ideas and suggestion leading to the right direction.

Steef-Jan: I do not see direct importance of a stub article. The only reason for assigning an article as a stub is that the author has a topic in mind and has some content. Based on that basic content he/she can create the article and mark it as a stub to indicate that he/she wants to finish the article later. A way of indicating it more explicitly, beside adding a tag (stub), is by adding in the text ([content to be added]).

Mahesh: Some articles are written, or get an idea from some books and articles already on Internet, is that good?

Steef-Jan: Those articles can be of value if a the idea, concept or technology is further enhanced by for instance a follow up to the latest version, use cases, or elaboration of pro/cons of applying that idea, concept or technology. In case the information in the book or the idea lacks context in your view than elaborating that in article can be a good idea. Ultimately there can be many reasons leading to writing about something you read in a book or a certain concept or technology.

Mahesh: Why does adding missing tags, correcting typos and grammar really help the articles which are written by someone else?

Mahesh: When writing an article, whom you consider as the audience/reader?

Steef-Jan: That depends on the topic of the article. In my case I write a lot about integration and BizTalk Server in particular. So you could say my target audience are the BizTalk/Microsoft Integration people in general.

Mahesh: Any suggestions to TechNetians and BizTalkians?

Steef-Jan: My suggestion would be read the guidelines about writing for the TechNet Wiki, use tools in case you need to improve your spelling and grammar, and finally ask help from others to review your article(s). For people who like to write about BizTalk Server I would say pick a topic that in your view lacks content on the TechNet Wiki or needs to be updated because Technology has advanced (updates platform, Windows Azure, and so on).

Thanks Steef-Jan, for this interview and I strongly believe, that with the insight provided by you, will help lot of us.

I agree with Steef-Jan, stubs articles should be a starting point for an idea to be developed, but see that some members of the Community creating many drafts with ideas to develop and do not develop anything.

I hope these few members understand that this Community serves to improve everyone's knowledge and not on generate quantities of articles created.

It was just a rant, but hope the TechNet Wiki Ninja be a reference solution and not stubs to be developed.

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